rcession of the Blessed and Glorious Virgin; for on all the Vigils
before Her feasts it was his wont to fast, eating nought save bread nor
drinking aught save beer; and it was within the Octave of the Feast of
Her Nativity that he departed in holy peace out of this present world to
the realms of Heaven, having made a good confession, being contrite, and
having received the Unction. Much wealth also came to our House through
his means, and he died in the fifty-ninth year of his age, having lived
with us for thirty-five years.

In the year of the Lord 1460, after the Feast of the Purification of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a mighty frost. The bitter cold began on
the Feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin (which was the first Sunday
in Lent), and endured until the middle of the fast, so that men and
horses heavily laden could walk everywhere upon the frozen waters in
safety, and carry their goods across the same. Likewise in many places
there was lack of fodder and straw wherewith to feed the beasts, for the
ground was dry and frost bound, wherefore men could not get them fresh
grass to feed the cattle. For this cause some poor men brake up the
roofs of their houses and gave of the thatch to the beasts: and this lack
of grass endured until the first of May.

In the same year, in the month of April, and on the second Sunday after
Easter, which was the day before the Feast of Vitalis the Martyr, Brother
Gerard Cortbeen was invested: he was a Priest, and a native of
Herderwijc, a good man, honest, faithful, and thirty-two years of age.

In the same year our church was adorned in seemly wise, the roof thereof
and all the flat spaces of the inner walls being painted in fair colours
to the glory of God and in honour of St. Agnes the Patron Saint of the
church. Amid the bright colours were written these three names Jesus,
Mary, Agnes, which of holy purpose were painted in large and black
letters, and they stand forth clearly to be read by the eyes of all that
enter the church.

In the same year, on the Feast of the Dispersion of the Apostles, between
the hours of Tierce and High Mass, died Deric, son of William, a
carpenter and servant of our household who was a Fellow Commoner. He was
born in Zwolle and was now thirty years of age, having lived a good,
humble, and peaceable life in this House for nearly eleven years.

In the year of the Lord 1461, on the morning of the Feast of St.
Emerentiana the Virgin, and